diff --git a/README b/README
index 2fad2e874..72047e2ca 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,3 +8,11 @@
       \__/
 
         terminal mail user agent
+
+                  / /
+                 /_/ |
+                /  \/
+                \__/|
+                /  \|
+                \__/|
+                   ||
diff --git a/src/bin.rs b/src/bin.rs
index 9d8cbc61d..976c8b837 100644
--- a/src/bin.rs
+++ b/src/bin.rs
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ use std::sync::mpsc::{sync_channel, Receiver, SyncSender};
 use std::thread;
 
 fn main() {
-    let locale_conf = ncurses::LcCategory::all;
-    ncurses::setlocale(locale_conf, "en_US.UTF-8");
+    ncurses::setlocale(ncurses::LcCategory::all, "en_US.UTF-8");
     let set = Settings::new();
     let ui = ui::TUI::initialize();
     let backends = Backends::new();
diff --git a/src/mailbox/backends/mod.rs b/src/mailbox/backends/mod.rs
index 592fa45a0..ddaed33e1 100644
--- a/src/mailbox/backends/mod.rs
+++ b/src/mailbox/backends/mod.rs
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ use self::fnv::FnvHashMap;
 use std;
 
 /// A hashmap containing all available mail backends.
+/// An abstraction over any available backends.
 pub struct Backends {
     map: FnvHashMap<std::string::String, Box<Fn() -> Box<MailBackend>>>,
 }
diff --git a/src/mailbox/email/attachments.rs b/src/mailbox/email/attachments.rs
index a72989112..f41dd0c22 100644
--- a/src/mailbox/email/attachments.rs
+++ b/src/mailbox/email/attachments.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 use mailbox::email::parser;
 
 use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter, Result};
-use std::ascii::AsciiExt;
 
 /*
  *
diff --git a/src/mailbox/email/mod.rs b/src/mailbox/email/mod.rs
index c862d0f69..e12d9f3d1 100644
--- a/src/mailbox/email/mod.rs
+++ b/src/mailbox/email/mod.rs
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::option::Option;
-//use std::io::prelude::*;
-use std::ascii::AsciiExt;
 
 use chrono;
 use chrono::TimeZone;